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bridge troop

Submitted by sapper wilson 973 on Fri, 2013-10-04 09:53

While serving with 65 our main duties were supporting our troops with medium gerder bridge.
by transporting it on Bedford 4 ton vehicles. My troop was known as bridge troop.we also had a mt section and a training wing. Reme was also attached . We also ferried the bridge to and from other camps after collecting them to be re sprayed and checked ffor defects by reme. Was anyone else at 65 during this time. Bridge train went out for two weeks with lcpl spike jones we went up to kiel and supported 59commando.we finally dropeed the bridge for 59 commando on the last day the Germans retreated we blew the bridge. End excersise.id love to here from anyone from this period especially bridge train